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What a fantastic team they were.

In Greg Blaney and Mickey Linden they had as fine of players to grace any era.

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It was the little visual things that set Down apart in the style stakes.

Conor Deegan’s drop kicking.
Mickey Linden’s sudden bursts of pace.
James McCartan’s ability to tumble and get back up and shoot all in one movement.
Ross Carr’s exaggerrated high kicking style.
Peter Withnell’s swaggering shoulders and his chest almost lying back horizontally as he bust the Kerry net.
The black sleeves. They just worked.

Of course they came to Croke Park back in the 60’s with a new brand of football as well.

Eamon Magee’s Laochra Gael featured comments from two other all time great Ulster forwards - Steven McDonnell and Stephen O’Neill.

That took me back to the 00s and the Armagh and Tyrone teams. Great times.

There is nothing like Ulster football.

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Kabaddi is very similar.

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https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/gaa/gaelic-football/gaelic-football-news/gaelic-football-just-way-more-34909931

Was John Egan not an awful man for it or was that the hand passed goal ?

Leitrim could do worse than appointing a man with working knowledge of Ulster foo … never mind.

You’re making a big assumption there!

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Aaron McKay scored the fisted goal in the final. McCambridge scored with his foot against Roscommon in the quarter-final.

Didn’t McCambridge brown bread score a goal with an underarm swinging fist to a loose ball around the square in the semi final against Kerry?

He did. You’re correct. I was at a social engagement that day so only saw bits and pieces of it. My abiding memory is Tom O’ Sullivan blazing a goal chance wide that would’ve finished Armagh off in the second-half.

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Was he Iris’s buddy🤔

He was 100% correct to call back the solo and go, sure the time had well passed for that.

He then took the free from the wrong place. That was very harsh tbf

These things work themselves out over a game

Did you see the ‘free’ at the end to draw the game?

To err is human.